About a month ago, a 50-minute-long video message by the TTP created panic among Kalash and Ismaili communities living in Chitral. "By the grace of Allah, an increasing number of people from the ...

“Every week we get threats from people who ask us to abandon our traditions,” says Fida, a resident of Bamorat village of the Kalash Valley in Chitral. This is one of the realities that the Kalash ...

Living in harmony with nature in three secluded valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains and celebrating the changing seasons according to their pre-Islamic religion for centuries, the ancient Kalash tribe ...

A girl stands in the village of Bumberet in the Kalash Valley. Kalash Valley, Pakistan: Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and ...

Kalash women continues to be the victim of malnutrition due to poverty and the rigid religious beliefs which force them to abstain from eating a number of food items known for being rich sources of ...

Gulf News travelled to Pakistan's Chitral district only to find that the Kalash society is on the verge of extinction. Declaring the valleys of the Kalash a protected area would go a long way in ...